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Trends in Nanotechnology Conferences

History
Since the first event (TNT2000) launched in Toledo (Spain) by Dr. Antonio Correia and Prof. Pedro A. Serena, the Organising Committee has been continuously evolving, and several institutions from different countries provided their support from 2000 to the present.

Since its infancy, the core of the Organising Committee is composed by the following individuals: Dr. Antonio Correia, Prof. Pedro A. Serena and Prof. Juan Jose Sáenz. However, the TNT Conference series is the successful consequence of a coordinated effort among several organising Institutions (11 worldwide in 2005) that jointly decide about several aspects of the conference and partially fund the TNT event.

One of the main objectives of the Trends in Nanotechnology conference is to provide a platform where young researchers can present their latest work and also interact with high-level scientists. For this purpose, the Organising Committee provides every year around 60 travel grants for students. In addition, more than 20 awards are given to young PhD students for their contributions presented at TNT. More than 60 senior scientists are involved in the selection process. Grants and awards are funded by the TNT Organisation in collaboration with several governmental or research institutions.

This high-level scientific meeting series aims, therefore, to present a broad range of current research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology worldwide as well as related policies (European Commission, etc.) and initiatives (iNANO, IEEE, GDR-E, etc.). TNT events have demonstrated that they are particularly effective in transmitting information and establishing contacts among workers in this field. Graduate students fortunate to attend such events quickly learn the importance of interdisciplinary skills, thereby becoming more effective in their future research.

TNT is now one of the premier European conferences devoted to nanoscale science and technology with around 400 participants worldwide.

More information on previous events could be found at:

TNT2004 (Segovia, Spain): http://www.phantomsnet.net/TNT04 TNT2003 (Salamanca, Spain): http://www.phantomsnet.net/TNT04/TNT03.php TNT2002 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain): http://www.phantomsnet.net/TNT04/TNT02.php

A list of all institutions involved in the organisation of the TNT conference series up to now, is provided below:

INSTITUTION COUNTRY Nb. of participation in the Organising Committee YEAR
00 01 02 03 04 05 06
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Spain 7              
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain 7              
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Spain 6              
Purdue University
USA 6              
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Spain 6              
University of Cambridge / IRC
UK 5              
Georgia Tech
USA 5              
CMP Cientifica S.L.
Spain 4              
NIMS
Japan 4              
PHANTOMS Foundation
Spain 3              
NRI
Japan 2              
Universidad de Salamanca
Spain 2              
Universidad Santiago de Compostela
Spain 2              
Universidad SEK
Spain 2              
CEA-LETI-DRFMC
France 2              
DIPC
Spain 2              
Universidad de Oviedo
Spain 2              
IBM
Switzerland 1              
IEEE
USA 1              
SRC
USA 1              
Universidad Castilla la Mancha
Spain 1              
 
TOTAL INSTITUTIONS
   
7
8
9
13
13
11
10

"TRENDS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY" CONFERENCES: MAIN FIGURES 
Year Location Country Dates Nb. of participants Spanish participants (%)
Keynotes
Orals
Posters
Exhibitors
Awards Grants
                       
2000
Toledo
Spain
16-20/10
147
33
28
34
37
1
0
0
2001
Segovia
Spain
03-07/09
234
31
48
30
109
6
0
15
2002
Santiago
Spain
09-13/09
353
32
47
29
187
4
10
30
2003
Salamanca
Spain
15-19/09
352
33
47
29
200
5
16
63
2004
Segovia
Spain
13-17/09
367
32
45
35
236
7
20
64
2005
Oviedo
Spain
28/08-02/09
364
47
40
20
245
11
28
76
2006
Grenoble
France
04-08/09
-
-
-
-
-
15
22
-
2007
San Sebastian
Spain
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

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TNT2005

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Invited Speakers:
  1. Harold Kroto (Florida State University, USA)
  2. Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland)
Keynote lectures:
  1. Masakazu Aono (Nanomaterials Lab. NIMS, Japan)
  2. Stephane Auvray (Montreal University, Canada)
  3. Yoshio Bando (NIMS, Japan)
  4. Jacques Beauvais (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
  5. Flemming Besenbacher (iNANO, Denmark)
  6. Gerard Bidan (CEA-DRFMC, France)
  7. Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia Tech, USA)
  8. Russell Cowburn (Imperial College London, UK)
  9. Oscar Custance (Osaka University, Japan)
  10. Yves Dufrene (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  11. Pedro Echenique (DIPC/UPV, Spain)
  12. Jaime Ferrer (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
  13. Peter Gruetter (McGill University, Canada)
  14. Bret Heinrich (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  15. Peter Hinterdorfer (University of Linz, Austria)
  16. Kikuji Hirose (Osaka University, Japan)
  17. Maki Kwai (Tokyo University, Japan)
  18. Colin Lambert (Lancaster University, UK)
  19. Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech, USA)
  20. Gustavo Luengo (L'OREAL Research, France)
  21. Bill Milne (Cambridge University, UK)
  22. Daniel Mueller (Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany)
  23. Abraham Nitzan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  24. Bibiana Onoa (Dupont, USA)
  25. Pablo Ordejon (CSIC-ICMAB, Spain)
  26. Yung-Woo Park (Seoul National University, Korea)
  27. Michael Pustilnik (Georgia Tech, USA)
  28. Eran Rabani (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  29. Ron Reifenberger (Purdue University, USA)
  30. Siegmar Roth (M-P-I fuer Festkoerperforschung, Germany)
  31. Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA)
  32. Clivia Sotomayor Torres (NMRC, Ireland)
  33. Nongjian Tao (Arizona State University, USA)
  34. Kohei Uosaki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  35. Patrick Van Hove (EC-DG Information Society, Belgium)
  36. Jose-Luis Vicent (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
  37. Robert A. Wolkow (University of Alberta, Canada)
  38. Hongqi Xu (University of Lund / Nanometer Consortium, Sweden)
The total number of participants was 364. 9% belong to Industrial companies, whereas the others came from Universities and Research Institutions (CNRS, CSIC, CEA etc.). 47.5% of participants were spanish (mainly students).
Participants per Country
Spain
173
Canada
32
France
30
Germany
23
United Kingdom
18
Japan
16
United States
14
Denmark
9
Italy
8
Netherlands
6
South Korea
5
Switzerland
4
Austria
3
Belgium
2
Estoni
2
Finland
2
Israel
2
Portugal
2
Russia
2
Sweden
2
Brazil
1
Hong Kong
1
Iran
1
Ireland
1
Latvia
1
Polan
1
Singapore
1
Slovakia
1
TOTAL
364
Students granted (76)
About 245 posters were presented.

TNT 2005 Best Poster Awards
In the TNT2005 edition, the TNT2005 Organisation (in collaboration with several Institutions) offered 28 awards (7800 Euros in total) to the best posters presented by students

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TNT2004

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Keynote lectures:
  1. Masakasu Aono (Japan)
  2. Jean-Philippe Bourgoin (France)
  3. Juergen Brugger (Switzerland)
  4. Enrique Calleja (Spain)
  5. Federico Capasso (USA)
  6. Hai-Ping Cheng (USA)
  7. Mei-Yin Chou (USA)
  8. Ken Dean (USA)
  9. Georg S. Düsberg (Germany)
  10. Andreas Engel (Switzerland)
  11. Albert Fert (France)
  12. F. Javier Garcia de Abajo (Spain)
  13. Peter Gruetter (Canada)
  14. L. Jay Guo (USA )
  15. Tomihiro Hashizume (Japan)
  16. Anwar Hasmy (Venezuela)
  17. Andy Henson (UK)
  18. Christian Joachim (CEMES/CNRS, France)
  19. Krishna Kalyanasundara (USA)
  20. Phil Kuekes (USA)
  21. Young Kuk (Korea)
  22. Gerhard Meyer (Swtzerland)
  23. Mervyn Miles (UK)
  24. Eiichi Nakamura (Japan)
  25. Roberto Otero (Denmark)
  26. Danny Porath (Israel)
  27. Edward Rashba (USA)
  28. Mathis Riehle (UK)
  29. Stephan Roche (France)
  30. Frank Scheffold (Switzerland)
  31. Ivan K. Schuller (USA)
  32. Alexander Shluger (UK)
  33. Robert Shull (USA)
  34. Clivia Sotomayor (Ireland)
  35. Joachim P. Spatz (Germany)
  36. Erio Tossati (Italy)
  37. John Tucker (USA)
  38. Masaru Tsukada (Japan)
  39. Daniel Ugarte (Brazil)
  40. Patrick Van Hove (Belgium)
  41. Mark Welland (UK)
  42. Stuart Wolf (USA)
  43. Noboru Yamazaki (Japan)
  44. Constantine Yannouleas (USA)
  45. Hiroshi Yokoyama ( Japan)
The total number of participants was 367. 10% belong to Industrial companies (IBM, Motorola, Keithley Instruments, Philips, etc...), whereas the others came from Universities and Research Institutions (CNRS, CSIC, etc.). 32% of participants were spanish (mainly students).
Participants per Country
Spain
117
Unted States
36
United Kingdom
29
Canada
28
France
20
Switzerland
20
Japan
15
Italy
13
Germany
11
Denmark
8
Korea
8
Netherlands
8
Finland
7
Russia
7
Ireland
6
Brazil
5
Belgium
4
Sweden
3
Venezuela
3
Australia
2
Iran
2
Israel
2
Mexico
2
Poland
2
Chile
1
Estonia
1
Latvia
1
Lithuania
1
New Zeland
1
Singapure
1
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
Taiwan
1
TOTAL
367
Students granted (64)
About 236 posters were presented.

TNT 2004 Best Poster Awards

In the TNT2004 edition, the TNT2004 Organisation (in collaboration with several Institutions) offered 22 awards to the best posters presented by students

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